. >> so if you look at their stock prices, citigroup was at 98 cents just a few weeks ago, it is now up 75%. >> banks are able to borrow money at little or no interest. >> narrator: as the bankers left, inside the white house, the president had already moved on. >> he was told at one point by an adviser, "your legacy is going to be preventing a second great depression." and he says, "that's not good enough for me." i mean, it wasn't enough for him to simply stop the economic problem. he wanted to have a positive transformative agenda. >> narrator: he wanted to take on health care reform. once again, his advisors were divided, worried about the political consequees. >> the white house had a debate about whether they should actually go forward with it. vice president biden was opposed to doing it, absolutely opposed to doing health care. >> so i said, if you're going to do this, go into it eyes open, know what the consequences are, and what the potentiality for success is. >> he was presented with all the political arguments, and he said, "i get the politics of this, but if we don't do